ren's june contribution

I forgot about May, and here is June. The palette for Taking It Further this month looked like this:

The piece to the left is something I did that deconstructed a really ugly crazy quilt block and changed it into something else. This something else is also ugly, but the pink silk piece does something to mitigate the ugliness somehow. Most of its colors, though, look like the June palette, especially with the addition of the brown satin.

And the theme was, "What do we call ourselves?" I call myself many things, but mostly, I call myself:

making April's TIF challenge

The theme for April's Take It Further challenge was change and the colors were these: This month, I am also working on a postcard swap. Aha! Why not do both at once?! And, it turns out that I am able to use both the colors and the theme. Here's how. Each postcard is sort of the same but different, so there's the change. Here are most of the materials with an almost finished card among them: And here are the postcard backs being printed from my computer: And HERE is a detail showing the threads and seashells and beads: Comments are most welcome!